The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-16
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Mr.. II. P. Christensen reports 1.-The
sale of the south half of lot 5, block "a,
Van Brunt's addition, to August Ber-
endt, for $3.50.
E. NJ. Pope has taken the general
agency for the Fiber-Ware Co.'S goods
for Minnesota and Dakota.
The Little will contest has been de-
cided in favor of the contestants. The
contest was made on the ground of an
improper signature and the unfit condi-
ton Of Mr.. Little to make his will when
he did.
A marriage license was Yesterday is
sued to Daniel f. Johnson and Mary E.
Elliot The couple were married by
Judge Porter, the City Hall gang" act
ing as witnesses. There was a good deal
of merriment occasioned by the affair.
There is a prospect that the attach
ment of the Wagon Bros. upon c. d.
Herbert's goods will be contested on the
ground that their weights had not been
sealed according to law. Wagon Bros.
arc lAAl'lAS ~ AAaNN tAAS AAAobbSi OAShSht
up in the courts so as TO make test case
of it. 1t is expected that the supreme
court will reverse Judge Severance's de-
cision. They have retained Messrs.
Freeman 4 Pfau and Barney as counsel.
They have applied to the county treas
urer to have their weights sealed. but
he cannot do it until he has received his
weights from st. Paul.
The freight department of the Mil
waukee & st. Paul has issued the follow
ing new instructions to agents, which
will be of interest to Mankato shippers:
Fifth class rates will be applied upon
mixed car loads of green hides, grease
and tallOw. On mixed car loads of grain
and seed from one cOnslgnOr to one con-
signee, the car load rate on each kind of
grain and seed will apply, provided that
all but one of the different kinds of grain
and seed are sacked. Rates on stock
cattle, west-bound only, from points on
or east of the Mississippi river to points
west of the Mississippi river, but not to
points on the Missouri river; also locally
between any points west of the Missis-
sipppi river, but not east bound to the
Mississippi river. Mixed car loads of
lime, cement, plaster and stucco will be
taken at the highest car load rate appli-
cable to either of the commodities
named. Plastering hair or fibre, loaded
with car loads of lime and plaster, will
be charged % per cent. above the car
load rate on the lime based upon actual
weight, provided that not less than the
minimum weight per car load shall APP
ply on the lime or lime and plaster con-
tanned in the car.
The new steam heating and ventil-
ating apparatus in the Pleasant Grove
school building bids fair to prove per-
feet success. 1t is what is known as the
lone pipe" or "direct indirect" system
and was put in by Wickersham & Brown
at a cost of s., 400. Although Yesterday
was very unfavorable day, still the sys-
tenn worked admirably. Air streamed
up the ventilating shaft at a rapid rate
and left the air in the most crowded
rooms as pure as that without the build
ing, and this without opening a single
window. The colder the weather the
better will the system operate. There
are four radiators in each rooms and the
air supply comes through cold air flues
and not from the windows, causing a
draught on the heads of the youngsters.
Steam pipes run up the foul air f1ues,
thus making a constant current Of air
past up. The colder the weather the
more steam will will be required and the
faster will the impure air flow out. One
large boiler in the basement supplies
the building with steam through a per-
feet system of pipes. The contract
merely called for an iron boiler, but
Wickersham d Brown have supplied a
fine steel one. So light pressure is re-
CURED to heat the building that there is
no possibility of any accident to the
boiler. Much credit is due the Board
of Education and Prof. Bechdolt for
making the change. The firm of w. &
B. has more than fulfilled its contract
and has done creditable job in every
way.